as in almighty
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knowing everything; having unlimited understanding or knowledge
an omniscient deity The novel has an omniscient narrator.
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Recent Examples of omniscient
No one can possibly know everything, so why waste time pretending to be omniscient?
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Harry Kraemer, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Baldwin’s husky purr of a voice sets the table for the events of the film, before settling back to pop in every now and then with an omniscient insight or unspoken truth.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
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People think of drug testing as the omniscient, infallible arbiter of guilt and innocence in competitive sports.
—Katie Bo Lillis, Air Mail, 7 June 2025
Another new motif was the eye, meant to represent here an omniscient but benevolent entity that accompanies and perpetuates knowledge in an unaltered state.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 27 May 2025
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Harry Kraemer, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Baldwin’s husky purr of a voice sets the table for the events of the film, before settling back to pop in every now and then with an omniscient insight or unspoken truth.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
Dark Horses June 7, 2025 Reading Time: 4 minutes
People think of drug testing as the omniscient, infallible arbiter of guilt and innocence in competitive sports.
—Katie Bo Lillis, Air Mail, 7 June 2025
Another new motif was the eye, meant to represent here an omniscient but benevolent entity that accompanies and perpetuates knowledge in an unaltered state.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 27 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for omniscient
Recent Examples of Synonyms for omniscient
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But perhaps, with this hybrid sneaker-heel, Doja Cat and Adidas have cracked the code to refreshing the almighty Samba.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
14 July 2025
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Alongside impossibly strong grannies, Dana must also contend with a dangerous prisoner now enjoying some posthumous freedom and a gun-toting drug dynasty with one almighty grudge.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
10 June 2025
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And the God, who is an omnipotent God, in many ways become impotent, because God has given us the gift to choose.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
28 June 2025
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The novel suddenly becomes reality and its omnipotent hero Yu Jung-hyeok (Lee Min-ho) appears before Dok-ja.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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The main character is a girl who stumbles upon a spring, and a family near that spring, the Tucks, is immortal.—
Maureen Lee Lenker Published,
EW.com,
16 July 2025
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The other main cast member, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), a human familiar turned vampire turned human once more, isn’t in this scene, having once again left the house in the dangerously hapless hands of his immortal onetime employers.—
Devin Oktar Yalkin,
Vulture,
15 July 2025
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The most immediate threat to the land of dreams was, of course, none other than the supreme leader himself, whose decision to spill family blood by mercifully killing his only son, Orpheus (Ruairi O’Connor), drew the ire of a trio of goddesses known as the Furies.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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And the current overwhelming, supreme U.S. power in orbit, with advanced imaging, intelligence and nuclear command and control satellites, makes its ever-expanding constellations attractive targets.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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The series centers on Maggie, an assistant within Britain’s intelligence agency The Circus, who discovers that Control – the agency’s all-powerful leader – has mysteriously vanished.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
25 July 2025
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Despite their claims to the contrary, Big Tech is not all-powerful.—
Theresa Payton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 July 2025
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However, the price of this resurrection is horrifying: the ritual requires numerous human sacrifices, with each victim selected for specific body parts that will complete the divine vessel.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
25 July 2025
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An ayahuasca retreat might have been a more divine alternative to a trailer breakdown to promote the otherworldly Good Fortune, at least according to its writer, director, and star, Aziz Ansari.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
23 July 2025
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“Omniscient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omniscient. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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